CONTENT BOX PROVIDING METHOD AND USER TERMINAL

Abstract

Disclosed are a content box providing method and a user terminal. The method may comprise the steps of: displaying a link shared through a chat room in a chat application; when a selection for the link is received, displaying a screen of a content execution result corresponding to the link through an in-app browser of the chat application or an external browser distinct from the chat application; displaying a notification for a new chat message while the screen of the content execution result is being displayed through the in-app browser or the external browser; when a selection for the notification of the new chat message is received, switching the screen of the content execution result to a screen of the chat room to which the new chat message received; and displaying a content box, which enables access to the content execution result, on the switched screen of the chat room.

Description

Claims

1. A content box providing method performed by a user device, comprising: displaying link information shared through a chat room in a chatting application;in response to receiving a selection for the link information, displaying a content execution result corresponding to the link information through a browser of the chatting application;in response to a selection by a user for a notification of a new chat message received while the content execution result is being displayed through the browser displaying a content box accessible to the content execution result on a screen of a chat room in which the new chat message corresponding to the notification is received, andin response to a user input through the content box, displaying the content execution result corresponding to the link information through the browser of the chatting application.

2. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the content box comprises at least one content template corresponding to the content.

3. The content box providing method of claim 2, wherein the content template comprises at least one of information identifying the content or information representing the content execution result for the content, and corresponds to a slot in the content box.

4. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the user input through the content box comprises at least one of: a selection by the user for the content box; ora selection by the user for a content template comprised in the content box.

5. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein a content template comprised in the content box is shared based on a sharing request from the user device, wherein, by the sharing request, a content corresponding to the content template or a content execution result for the content is shared through an application.

6. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the content box is shared by and provided in different user devices to which the same user information is input.

7. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the content box is provided by being overlaid in the form of a floating menu on a chat window displayed on the screen of the chat room or is provided as a menu of the chatting application.

8. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein, when the content box is extended, the chatting application provides, through the extended content box, a content template comprising information identifying the content or information representing the content execution result for the content.

9. The content box providing method of claim 8, wherein, in the content box, a content template arranged based on a preset priority is displayed, or a content template is displayed in an area classified by category.

10. The content box providing method of claim 1, further comprising: when the screen of the chat room is switched to another screen while the content box is being displayed on the screen of the chat room, maintaining the content box on the other screen.

11. A user device in which a program for executing a content box providing method is installed, wherein the program comprises: displaying link information shared through a chat room in a chatting application;in response to receiving a selection for the link information, displaying a content execution result corresponding to the link information through a browser of the chatting application;in response to a selection by a user for a notification of a new chat message received while the content execution result is being displayed through the browser displaying a content box accessible to the content execution result on a screen of a chat room in which the new chat message corresoonding to the notification is received; andin response to a user input through the content box, displaying the content execution result corresponding to the link information through the browser of the chatting application.

12. The user device of claim 11, wherein the content box comprises at least one content template corresponding to the content.

13. The user device of claim 12, wherein the content template comprises at least one of information identifying the content or information representing the content execution result for the content, and corresponds to one slot in the content box.

14. The user device of claim 11, wherein the user input through the content box comprises at least one of: a selection by the user for the content box; ora selection by the user for a content template comprised in the content box.

15. The user device of claim 11, wherein a content template comprised in the content box is shared based on a sharing request from the user device, wherein, by the sharing request, a content corresponding to the content template or a content execution result for the content is shared through an application.

16. The user device of claim 11, wherein the content box is shared by and provided in different user devices to which the same user information is input.

17. The user device of claim 11, wherein the content box is provided by being overlaid in the form of a floating menu on a chat window displayed on the screen of the chat room or is provided as a menu of the chatting application.

18. The user device of claim 11, wherein, when the content box is extended, the chatting application provides, through the extended content box, a content template comprising information identifying the content or information representing the content execution result for the content.

19. The user device of claim 18, wherein, in the content box, a content template arranged based on a preset priority is displayed, or a content template is displayed in an area classified by category.

20. The user device of claim 11, wherein the program further comprises: when the screen of the chat room is switched to another screen while the content box is being displayed on the screen of the chat room, maintaining the content box on the other screen.

21. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the content box changes in position through a drag on a screen of the user device.

22. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the content box comprises: switching the content execution result displayed through the browser to the screen of the chat room to which the new chat message corresponding to the notification is input.

23. The content box providing method of claim 1, wherein the content box is provided while dependent on the chat room in the chatting application.

24. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program being configured to control a processor to perform the content box providing method of claim 1.